Secretary of State Scott Gessler stands with his supporters as he makes his case to be a Republican candidate on the ballot for the governor of Colorado on April 12 in Boulder. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post)

Adjacent stories on Page 6A of Wednesday’s Denver Post: one about Colorado’s current secretary of state, Scott Gessler, and his fundraising prowess in the Republican primary race for Colorado governor; the other about the fact that the Colorado Secretary of State’s office will be issuing an opinion soon about whether Citizens United must comply with campaign finance laws (such as they are these days) as they make their next film. The film will involve criticism of John Hickenlooper, Colorado’s current governor and Gessler’s general election opponent should he win the Republican nomination.

Seriously? Are you kidding me? Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse. You just can’t make this stuff up.

Laurie Ritchie, Centennial

This letter was published in the June 5 edition.

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It seems to me that when someone has something important to sell, they will do everything possible to publicize its virtues. Scott Gessler’s and Tom Tancredo’s refusal to participate in gubernatorial primary debates and other forums suggests to me that either they have nothing much to sell or perhaps they have something to hide.

Come on, guys. Don’t be shy. If you really want to be governor, let’s hear what you have to say about the issues voters care about, like jobs and the economy, income inequality, health care, the environment and fracking, immigration, marriage equality and marijuana legislation. Let your primary opponents challenge you if you are up to it. Curious voters would like to know.

Bob Kropfli, Golden

This letter was published in the Feb. 8 edition.

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I find it ironic that Christy Le Lait, campaign manager for A Whole Lot of People for John Morse, stated, “There should be a swift and thorough investigation. Any incidents of forgery or perjury should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.”

How is this different from Secretary of State Scott Gessler trying to clean up Colorado’s voter-registration database?

Democrats have hounded Gessler’s every move, but when it works to their favor, they’re all for it.

Mitch McGaughey, Castle Rock

This letter was published in the July 25 edition.

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What is it with Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler? Is he such a narcissist that he just has to have his name in print or is he just a simple bully who wants everything his way right this very second? It seems he is attempting to alienate even his supporters in his desire to have his name in the newspaper every day.

It appears Gessler’s headline-grabbing is only to show the future voters what a tough governor he will be. His grandstanding increases the divisiveness that already exists in our local and national government in an attempt to grab more votes from the fringe elements.

Gessler certainly is not helping build any bridges that will assist in bringing back reasonable government to our state and country. I don’t think he understands that his behavior will certainly, at some point, backfire on him.

John A. McElrath, Wheat Ridge

This letter was published in the July 18 edition.

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I can’t believe that Secretary of State Scott Gessler is once again investigating so-called voter fraud, asking district attorneys and county clerks to spend time and public funds chasing his ghostly “fraudulent voters.” He seems rather to be trying to intimidate new voters, the elderly, people in the military, and minorities. It seems especially to target immigrant communities, the very ones who have newly qualified as voters.

Voter fraud is almost non-existent, at least if the figures he himself has turned up in the past are true. Voting by all qualified persons is the key to a healthy democracy. Isn’t it time to stop beating this dead horse?

Alice Silver, Denver

This letter was published in the July 8 edition.

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Ron Binz, former chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, was recently nominated by President Obama to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Denver Post file)

Accusations against Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler have been given heavy exposure in your pages, but when Democratic radical environmentalist Ron Binz was reported to be in line for a top-level Obama appointment, The Post’s ethics police fell silent.

Since Gessler took office in 2011, The Post’s editors have criticized Gessler often. The paper has given maximum coverage to accusations from his critics at the left-liberal Colorado Ethics Watch. Yet, when former Colorado Public Utilities Commission Chairman Ron Binz was reported to be the leading candidate to head the powerful Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, The Post’s editors and reporters were strangely silent about Binz’s history of ethical myopia and conflicts of interest.

To his credit, editorial page editor Vincent Carroll has written often about Binz’s problems, and in June he sounded an alarm about the Obama appointment (“Binz might head FERC? Say it ain’t so,” June 19). But those were opinion columns, not editorials or news coverage.

With only one paper in town, there’s no one to watch the watchdog.

Tom Tancredo, Littleton

This letter was published in the July 6 edition.

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There is a distinction between illegal acts and unethical behavior. While Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler may not have been indicted by the grand jury, he certainly has violated the public trust, as noted by the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission. And while he maintains that any attack on him is motivated by “partisan politics,” the grand jury did assert that his actions were “partisan and political.” This is a man who does not deserve to hold public office at any level.

Joe Felice, Aurora

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